Not my normal style!

It's another of those redirect post - over to PaperArtsy - for a design using an old stamp PaperArtsy collection.

Nikki xx

New PaperArtsy stamps...

It's another of those posts just to let you know I am over on the PaperArtsy blog this evening sharing  these designs for the new release of stamps by Courtney Franich. 

Nikki

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Paint and Patterns for PaperArtsy

There is colour, paint, patterns and quotes tonight for my latest project for PaperArtsy.... head on over to see more.

Nikki xxx

Tattered Butterfly Shadow Box

A few weeks ago I attended a workshop at Country View Crafts with A Vintage Journey's owner Brenda Brown. Brenda is a great teacher, her projects are always so well planned with lots of techniques and always a gorgeous composition. I was inspired by this and adapted her ideas to create my Tissue Paper project for our latest challenge at A Vintage Journey.

This is Brenda's original design - and here is a link to her blog post.

By Brenda Brown

I changed mine slightly to use butterflies rather than bunnies!

Nikki's version

My new version incorporates Tim Holtz Botanical Collage Paper and other images stamped onto tissue paper for my background. This version is a little smaller and instead of card I used corrugated box card for my background. I added some gesso and crackle paint before adding my tissue papers to the surface. I then painted elements of the background - the leaves and berries.

My butterflies and frame used techniques from the workshop so it would be unfair to share them in detail here - but I am sure you can see crackle paint and lots of painty layers! 

Tissue paper is a great way to get stamped images onto a textured surface like corrugated card. The images may distort a little but on this sort of project it doesn't matter!

There is lots more Tissue Paper inspiration at A Vintage Journey today. Astrid is our host and this is what she says:

There are many different ways you can incorporate tissue paper into your project - create texture by scrunching it up, stain it, paint it, wax it, stamp on it, emboss on it. You could use cheap tissue from the supermarket, recycle gift wrapping tissue, or even use old dressmaking patterns. Just remember to create in one of our preferred styles of vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling, industrial, timeworn or steampunk.

So do pop over and take a peek!

Nikki

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Throwing everything at this one!

Hi everyone - it's a busy old project this one! For all the details you can find me over at PaperArtsy this evening.

Nikki

Stamping on Gelli Plates

Hello! Today I am over at PaperArtsy for a project on the current theme of Fish. I have had my gelli plate out again - do head over for all the details.....

Nikki

Crackled Pebbles with Faceted Heart

I recently showed the Neutrals project I created for our challenge theme this month at A Vintage Journey. (Here). Today I am sharing the 'how to do' tutorial for this!

Do hop over for the Crackled Pebble effect and how I did the Faceted Heart.

Nikki

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